B2 · Upper Intermediate
Architecture & Urban Life
Facades, foundations and the flow of the city: the Danish words for describing buildings and the urban life that surrounds them.
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- Words & phrases
- 60
- Lessons
- 2
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
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Words you’ll make your own.
Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- construction, building project
- facade
- column, pillar
- arch
- foundation
- backyard, courtyard
- urban space
- apartment block
- infrastructure
- urban planning
- renovation
- to renovate
- brick
- scaffolding
- skyscraper
- green space
- traffic jam
- densification
- building plot
- master plan
- architecture
- the Baroque
- Art Nouveau
- Art Deco
- Functionalism
- a blueprint
- a floor plan
- a building permit
- a buttress
- a cornice
- a dome
- facade ornamentation
- a roof structure
- a load-bearing wall
- a listed building
- an extension
- a remodeling
- urban renewal
- a cityscape
- a commercial district
- a residential district
- congestion in the city
- zoning
- to demolish
- gentrification
- livable
- walkable
- a dam
- a gable
- a moat
- a spire
- a turret
- an architrave
- a frieze
- Gothic
- a pediment
- rococo
- a gateway
- a slab
- to erect
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Architecture and Urban Life
- Lesson 2
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